{"text":"A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... Saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?","author":"Stephen Hawking","tags":["city","reality","fish "],"id":3591,"author_id":"Stephen+Hawking"}